Dear Diary,
Silas finally showed up in Canterlot after three hours of waiting anxiously on the doorstep of the palace. Everypony turned up for the visit. There were decorations everywhere. Not for Silas mind you; no the special treatment was all due to the great and powerful Princess Lilac of the Crystal Empire (a.k.a. Miamore's bride-to-be).
I'd never actually met the Princess until today. In fact the only two of the party I have met were Silas, of course, and Rosen who I'd met for short amounts of times when she'd come to NEMI to visit Silas.
A large splendid carriage, lighted with what seemed thousands of glowing crystals, flew in from the sky above. Miamore rushed forward, his cheeks red and opened the door to the visitors. You should have seen him when he held Princess Lilac's hoof-- I thought that Nox and Tia loved each other, but these two were on a whole other level of romance. It was quite clear they'd do anything for each other, which seems strange since Miamore had always been such a 'never-less-than-a-minimum-of-two-marefriends-at-once' sort of stallion/colt. Something had clearly changed in him since I left all that time ago. Even Gallophad managed a smile when encountered with his brother and fiancé.
After Lilac followed Rosen, closely stalked by my good buddy Silas. He was as calm and collected as when he left NEMI a few months before me-- this of course was due to all of the hard work the ponies put into taking care of him, and the tablets he takes. They're not the same as mine though; I take another colour to him because of our different problems. When the adults went inside Silas bowed to me and gave me a grin. I was glad, he'd looked too formal to be Silas at first.
We strode over to one another and shook hooves/claw. Rosen followed suit. My friends gathered round to meet them.
"Silas," I'd said to him, "this is Princess Celestia."
Celestia blushed slightly.
"Charmed I'm sure," said Silas trying to hold in his giggles. He kissed her on her hoof and added to the redness of her cheeks. Nox didn't look too happy about it, but then again it's understandable that he doesn't want his marefriend going away with anypony else. Rosen smiled at me.
"It's great to see you again Diddy. How's everything been going?"
That was just like Rosen to ask. She asked me the same thing everytime she visited NEMI and she always listened and remembered your answers. I gave her a quick overall run of what had happened since I last saw her. Silas appeared to waver a bit and Rosen looked concernedly at him. He didn't seem to look very well to my eye either.
"Are you okay Silas?" I asked. He nodded and gave me a smile. He certainly seemed to perk up and become his old self again after that.
Loony didn't seem to get along with Silas that well. In fact she didn't even like going near him. I asked her about it later and she said that she 'felt something wrong around him'. There's nothing wrong with Silas, I told her, if there was I'd be the first one to realise. She still stayed wary but she began to try and talk to him a bit more.
It's only been one day but it's been a good one. Admittedly we haven't managed to do much together yet but the visiting party were all tired from their long journey so went to bed early.
Tomorrow I'm going to see Silas again and show him around. I've spent the last year or so telling him all about how wonderful this place is and now he'll finally get to see it for himself. Now if only I could find out where I've put my medication it'd be all alright. The last time I saw it was when me and the others went to dinner with the royal family. I hope Silas doesn't lose his meds as well, they were right next to mine on the table. Maybe he saw what happened to them though.
Anyway, I suppose I can ask one of the maids to go get another lot. It's not like I do this often.
Goodnight Diary, till tomorrow.